Page one at WaPo today describes an inquiry, now underway, of the NASA Inspector General's failure to investigate several charges and his retaliation against whistle-blowers.

BRAD BLOG Readers familiar with the Clint Curtis story, however, will note a very interesting development here. Emphasized in bold in the quoted text below...

An FBI-led watchdog agency has opened an investigation into multiple complaints accusing NASA Inspector General Robert W. Cobb of failing to investigate safety violations and retaliating against whistle-blowers. Most of the complaints were filed by current and former employees of his own office.

Written complaints and supporting documents from at least 16 people have been given to investigators. They allege that Cobb, appointed by President Bush in 2002, suppressed investigations of wrongdoing within NASA, and abused and penalized his own investigators when they persisted in raising concerns.

The complaints are being reviewed by the Integrity Committee of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. The complaints describe efforts by Cobb to shut down or ignore investigations on issues such as a malfunctioning self-destruct procedure during a space shuttle launch at the Kennedy Space Center, and the theft of an estimated $1.9 billion worth of data on rocket engines from NASA computers.
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IG auditor Carroll Tom Hassell described how "a person in a South American country" over three days in late 2002 logged into the Marshall Space Flight Center's supposedly secure computer system, stole space shuttle data valued at $1.9 billion and shipped it to a third country.

I have several meetings today, so I can't get into too much detail for the moment. But for those not familiar with Clint Curtis, among his allegations is that Yang Enterprises Inc. (YEI), his employer back in 2000 in Florida, was spying on NASA via their contracts with the space agency. He alleges, in a sworn affidavit, that YEI inserted "wire-tapping modules" into software they were contracted to write for NASA, and that an undocumented Chinese worker, Hai Lin "Henry" Nee, was in charge of the programming that pulled it all off.

Nee was charged, some years later, for attempting to send Hellfire anti-tank missile chips from YEI to China, eventually pleading guilty.

Curtis took his charges to Raymond Lemme, from the Inspector General's office in Tallahassee, FL. Lemme allegedly told Curtis that his investigation had traced these matters "all the way to the top"; two weeks later, Lemme was found dead in a Valdosta, GA hotel room. The police ruled the case a suicide, but several inconsistencies in their report remain unexplained, including the claim that the photos taken at the crime scene could not be developed --- those same photos were later found, and published, here at BRAD BLOG.

At the time, the general counsel and registered lobbyist for YEI was U.S. Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL), who also served as the in-coming Speaker of the Florida Legislature, and who is most famous for his claim during the 2000 Florida Election Debacle that the electoral votes in Florida would be delivered to George W. Bush no matter what the Florida Supreme Court had to say about it. Feeney --- who continues to receive money from YEI and their attorneys, and houses his campaign headquarters in their building in Oviedo, FL --- now sits on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Feeney also ran as Jeb Bush's running-mate for Governor in 1994, and has most recently been implicated in the Abramoff/Tom DeLay scandals for participating in one of the now-infamous lobbyist-paid golf trips to St. Andrews, Scotland.

And, oh yes, Curtis, a computer programmer --- who was a Republican at the time --- claims that Feeney asked him, while they both worked for YEI at the time, to create a touch-screen vote-rigging software prototype. But you'll have to read up on the quick summary of Curtis' story to catch up on that part of it.

so.. lemme get this straight.. Feeny, a Congressmen, is tied to a company that had illegal alien spies working there, working on NASA software contracts, and now $1.9 billion in data has been stolen from NASA? and the Bush appointee who SHOULD be running the investigation into a stolen $1.9 BILLION is dodging his responsibilities AND punishing anyone that tries to do the right thing?

Thanks to Brad, I'm aware of Clint Curtis & this story, and I'm thrilled (maybe I should say "guardedly thrilled") that its found its way to the front page of the Washington Post.
It doesn't exactly inspire my confidence, however, that it is being reviewed by the "Integrity Committee of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency".

I think that body is being investigated by the People's Committee on Oxymorons!!

Depressing. If this had happened in the sixties or seventies, the entire MSM would have been scrambling to expose all this stuff. The perps would have been dealt with. We'd have made ourselves stronger against it.

Nowadays it seems as though there is an unsung battle between the people left with any conscience and those who have none, and we have to sit out here, rooting for our team, in the dark, while all these tv and radio stations and newspapers, with all that manpower and machinery to investigate this stuff and make it public, lies fallow.

Brad, somebody at HuffPo wanted Soros to buy CNN. Maybe we should ask Soros to fund a newsroom for you. Since the job has been thrust on you, maybe somebody wouldn't mind equipping you for it.

And let us never forget the other issue with Clint Curtis, about which he has also passed a lie- detector test. For those new to the Curtis story, he alleges that before the 2000 election, while working for Yang Enterprises as a software engineer, he was asked by Mrs. Yang (head of the company) to devise a "vote-rigging software prototype" that could combat DEMOCRATIC VOTE FRAUD IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

Curtis, a Republican, agreed to design this prototype without realizing its true function would not be to combat Democratic fraud, but to promote Republican fraud. At the time he devised the vote-rigging software, he assumed the source code would always be subject to inspection, thus it had never occurred to him that it could be used in a nefarious way (too easy to show fraud). When he realized the source code was proprietary (so ruled by a court), he put two and two together and realized that he had unwittingly helped rig the 2000 election for the Republicans.

Feeney figures in the plot because Curtis swore that he was present at the time Mrs. Yang made the request, and at several other meeting where this was discussed. To repeat, Curtis has passed a lie-detector test regarding all these matters; Feeney has not taken such a test.

And for the record, Curtis also swore that in his presence, Feeney told Yang to "charge (the Florida Dept. of Transportation) whatever you want..." for certain software services, this while he was Majority Leader in the Florida State Legislature and sworn to serve the citizens of Florida's interests.

Joan preceded me with a similar thought (though punctuated with a perfect term I hadn't thought of—"oxymoronica")… I mean, I was taken aback when I learned the WH was giving employees workshops on ethics. Too obvious to say something about the blind leading the blind, I suppose. But to learn now that the WH has a committee on *integrity* —INTEGRITY!?!—and that said committee is now charged with assessing the integrity of a WH lapdog appointee…. Cripes!!!

# I just finished reading quite a history of the 'National Prayer Breakfast' yesterday at WMR. 'The Fellowship'. This octopus is way bigger than I knew. Redwoods and Cedars, oh my.

Back to topic, I just come here anymore to read the latest scandals and laugh. Like someone is really going to pay for anything anymore. I just don't know how all these liars keep their stories straight and how they know who is who...what a complete joke. I am just glad I believe in a God, that is all I can say. "Vengence is mine, sayeth the Lord". M4 (Born again, and again, and again)

M4 Don't you worry, God will have his vengeance in time. Soon the lies will catch up to them. What gives me hope is the more lies they make the more they will catch themselves in it. It's coming close to end game. We will soon see the cookies crumbling.

The culture of corruption. And his stupid followers are worried about the Island of Dr. Moreau. How come we're not saying anything about his SOTU statement, ""Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research . . . creating human-animal hybrids."

This is to give his retarded followers like Paul/Ricky/MediumWongEnterprises something stupid to chew on, like the HI-DRO-GIN car.

Embarrassing! That the leader of the freeworld mentioned human/animal hybrids as a concern! I'm ashamed he's our president, and more ashamed of his followers. They are fully mentally retarded.

Bush's followers are worried about the Island of Dr. Moreau, not elderly Americans freezing to death because our corrupt government won't fund LIHEAP. The Bush followers are a bunch of stupid idiots. And they are actually dangerous, because they are so stupid.

The Furors Council on Integrity and Efficiency?
So all great investigation goes directly to theWa Wa Wa White House eh? Maybe they'll whispered in the President's ear about changing the Constitution here and there to make our Federal government more eh eh efficient. Nevermind someone already did. Like maybe we can change powers of the Executive branch to make the decision to rush to war instead of the Senate? Hut nevermind already got it covered. Maybe we can stop listening to environmental scientists because their opinions based on investigating scientific evidence are in ca ca ca ca-ca contrast to the interests of the corporate elite and the Bushit admininstration running this country. Maybe we should pressure states into using hackable electronic voting machines because the EFFICIENCY of which these corrupt officials can cheat to win an election is amazing. The moral fiber and INTEGRITY of these corrupt lying murderer knows no boundry. No need to talk about a place called hell or going to a place in after life called hell because with this committee at the helm of investigations, this planet is sentenced to be turned in HELL (echoed) HELL (echoed) HELL SIEG HEIL! By controlling the news media and a supply of news anchor$ to provide an EFFICIENT delivery of reading the words off the teleprompt, viewer$ will eventually believe the INTEGRITY of whatever is said even if it's total.. total BUSHIT.

Oh this plot has thickened alright. And from what I've read this is just the tip of the iceberg....Lots of individuals are looking into this now.

And I got to say its one long tangled web of theft in Florida.....you have a good eye to catch this part of it. As long as everything checks out....the full story should be coming out soon. Guess we'll see pretty soon!

Yes they said it wasn't genetically possible however it's been done! Believe it or not someone successfully mated a bird and a human..Naysayers say WHAT??? Yes your president gEORGE bUSH is the first successful hybrid crossing of a bird and a man. Most people are aware the Doe Doe bird is extict, however Bush anti-sciencists have discovered that George Dubya is living proof of this successful interspecie crossing. Yee-ha!!! Unfortunately he only got the brains of the Doe Doe but these findings cannot be overlooked. Quick somebody start chanting out loud. (real loud) Loud as you can.. DOE DOE! / DOE DOE! / DOE DOE! Until it permeates the minds of all his foolowers..yeh bebe! Now we're movin. (Probing the mind of our Commander in Chief, Anti-scientists have uncovered these thought provoking questions inside the head of gEORGE bUSH) - Is the W.H. refrigerator stocked with nightcrawlers and what Bushit can i get away with this week?

Dick Cheney: Dis technology in the hands of a 3rd world country is well dangerous and we can spin it to our advantage.

G. Bush: Yeh???

Dick Cheney: What do you say we take out the Eiffel Tower with a rocket and blame another country on our Christmas wish list of governments we want to overthrough?

G. Bush: Can we work in that the rocket engine information theft is why we need to attack?

Dick Cheney: We can take the stance that the rocket can be used as a weapon of mass destruction and use our pre-emptive first strike move again.

G. Bush: Yeah!

Dick Cheney: With Elito on the bench now, you won't even have do a little dog and pony show in front of Congress.

G. Bush: Get the nightcrawlers! Can i just give a speech on TV land?

Dick Cheney: Yes Mr. President but go after American Idol because there's this little gay dude..well i don't know if he's you know gay but he sure can sing swell and i want to see if he makes it to the next level.

Bush had plans drawn up to next attack the Island of Dr. Moreau. All his lunatic followers had their signs painted up, "Bomb Moreau", etc...then they told him it was only a movie. Sad. I haven't seen even the MSM touch that comment with a ten foot pole. Why not, though? We just let a comment in the SOTU slip by like that? One of the most ridiculous comments ever in a SOTU address? I firmly believe they "throw a bone" to the lunatic fringe who back them, every SOTU speech, and hope they "go off" on it. I know this is OT...but it really bugs me, how he got a pass on this comment. Did anyone every hear of this? Someone post one of those creatures from Dr. Moreau, the one with Marlon Brando. BVAC???

Phase I: Steal the presidential election with electronic voting machines, then when a puppet Republican president picked all neo-con PNAC members for the cabinet, enact all their radical plans they wanted since Cheney & Rumsfeld were chanting for it for decades.

Phase II: 9/11, the perfect "Pearl Harbor" to escalate their radical plans, while scaring American citzens with terror. They were either in on it, or let it happen. What other way could they enact all their radical policies, quickly? What did they do from 2000 to 9/11? Nothing. Bush was on vacation, doing nothing. The neo-cons were sitting around, saying "We can't enact all our radical policies we want quickly, and nothing's happened from 2000 to 9/10, and people would catch on to what we're doing, if we start proposing radical legislation."

Bush said he was against Nation Building during his campaign, he took a huge surplus and squandered it, he and his neo-con cabinet continually propose legislation to undo government social programs, like they always wanted to, like social security, medicare, medicaid, he lied about the medicare/medicaid plan, saying it was 150 million less than it would be, and it stinks to boot, he lied us into a war that we will be paying for for decades, he split America to fight with each other so we don't notice what he's doing. I can go on and on.

One thing rightwingers don't tell us, what good has he done so far? Just submit a list on this blog of the good things he has done for America, please, instead of saying assinine stupid things.

That's just the tip of the iceberg I'm afraid....the neocons did all the election fraud going back to Clinton and before.

Neocon Dov Zakheim literally helped orchestrate 9-11 or in other words made it happen himself...

On top of that, lots of US secrets got leaked out of the country.....and to all of their agents. They also set everything up for 2004 to do it again hence the terror alerts, electronic fraud ala clinton and earlier races and much more.

#24 Your link covered some of the info I read regarding 'The Cedars...ala..The Family....The Fellowship'. I guess this is what is baffling to me, they worship Moloch in the Redwoods and Christ in the Cedars. How do they keep track of who they are. Perhaps 'The Family' is just the preparation for the bigger things to come. I understand they recruit young boys, blocked off the road to create a cul-de-sac, much to the dismay of the 'normal' residents and the movers and shakers convene for their 'marching orders'. Ohmigod, Wonderland! M4 (sorry for being OT again, but FI just keeps getting me sidetracked...lol) (well, maybe NASA funds them..who knows..)

I can't determine if their ties to disturbing individuals & groups is part of a deliberate, nefarious political plan a la PNAC or if their core goal is actually spreading devotion to Christ.
I know, I know...that sounds hopelessly naive. At best, it seems to me that this group is ripe for distortion & manipulation for political purposes, and at worst that is its actual goal.
In any case, they seem to me to be a bunch of very, very disturbing dudes.

Doug, thanks for the link. I am only skimming the tip of the iceberg. I thought I had a bit of understanding but everyday I just shake my head as I learn more and more and more. What can I say...am running on empty now.... M4